RE: [PEAR-DEV] general questions

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Lukas Smith wrote: > well you said that I would oppose contributions .. which I never said. > > Anyways let's make this list a bit more comfy. Somehow I worry about > each little word being twisted around when I post to this list. Then > again a can understand when some people feel like I am intruding on > their 'territory' telling them how to do things. To a certain extend > this is true obviously since I do prefer metabase in a lot of respects > to Pear DB. But I will not take away your choices just a bit of time > when you read my posts. :-) > Alright, I'll grant you that. Perhaps it was the way you said that that seemed like you were not going to take any contributions. In any case, let's forget about that and work together. > Well lets then talk about implementation (actually I had a feeling in > some respects this discussion has already started long ago): > > I envisioned this framework to be lightweight at the core but extensible > to allow for more "advanced"/"ease of use" features to be implemented. > Those features should not bloat the core. I think a few people already > noted that this is a good direction. Metabase was certainly heading that > way. As I stated earlier the binarycloud people did something in that > direction and Manuel was planning something similar for all the > create/alter functions. I also wanted to add to this SQL functions. > Getting joins to work could also be put in this list (I tend to prefer > subselects because their syntax is more portable). > > I think Tomas also said that he had some ideas in mind. Please share > your thoughts. > > I agree with John on KISS however I do see the goal of this project to > keep portability above performance. If I feel that certain things need a > speed up I can always make conditional statements in my code or just > make them as none portable and move on. > That sounds good actually. Can we start designing something perhaps, like an UML diagram of how do you want to see the API and we could possibly suggest changes and additions. If you don't know any UML editors, I suggest you to take a look on ArgoUML (http://www.argouml.org). Cheers, Joao -- João Prado Maia <jpm@phpbrasil.com> http://phpbrasil.com - php com um jeitinho brasileiro -- Precisando de consultoria em desenvolvimento para a Internet ? Impleo.net - http://impleo.net/?lang=br